MANUFACTURING STRATEGIES AND CHOICES IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS

Symbolic Power in Cultural Contexts SYMBOLIC POWER IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS

Rational Choices - Social Contexts

In neoclassical economic theory, rational actors are very simple entities: they know everything, they value more better than less, and given a decision situation with certain physical constraints they are able to calculate the optimal outcome and to behave accordingly (cf. Kiser/Ostrom). Any form of social interaction enters the decision situation as an additional constraint. Relaxing the condi...

Interventions and Cultural Contexts

Cultural tourism: challenges and strategies

Optimal Number of Choices in Rating Contexts

In many settings people must give numerical scores to entities from a small discrete set. For instance, rating physical attractiveness from 1–5 on dating sites, or papers from 1–10 for conference reviewing. We study the problem of understanding when using a different number of options is optimal. For concreteness we assume the true underlying scores are integers from 1–100. We consider the case...